Pain Medication: The Pros & Cons
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The usage of pain medication can be a helpful tool in coping with an injury or illness, but the fact is, some people really need pain meds and some really don't. Add to the equation the various side effects and potential for addiction, and this delineation becomes even more critical. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen introduce the concept of "Skills or Pills?" to illustrate when it may be necessary to use pain medication, and when you can utilize other, more natural techniques to help get you through the painful times.
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| 0:56.0 | Skills or pills, question mark. |
| 1:00.0 | Such an interesting topic. |
| 1:02.0 | So often people come to us here at Aaman Clinics and they go, I don't want to take medication. |
| 1:08.1 | And they may be flawedly psychotic. |
| 1:10.3 | And we're like, no, you need medication. |
| 1:12.4 | Well, we also have people though that come in and they're like I don't want to do all that that's too hard can't I just take a pill. |
| 1:17.1 | So it's there's both sides of that we need to discuss. |
| 1:20.4 | Some people don't trust natural supplements or psychotherapy and they want a quick fix which generally is not quick. |
| 1:28.6 | Right. And other people they're so afraid of medication because of the horror stories |
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